Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again.
MALCOLM XYou don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
More Malcolm X Quotes
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You and I have never seen democracy; all we’ve seen is hypocrisy.
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The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men’s thinking about themselves.
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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.
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Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.
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I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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The price of freedom is death.
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Reading has changed the course of my life radically. I did not aim behind it to gain any certificates to improve my position. Rather, I wanted to live intellectually.
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Respect me, or put me to death.
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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
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Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.
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If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
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